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...deeply ingrained and problematic mindset both at Harvard and at other research universities; it is unquestioned law that faculty teach the courses they want to teach, regardless of whether those are the courses students need or want. In determining what courses to offer, departments and professors must bear in mind that the primary goal of courses is to educate students, not simply replicate the research interests of faculty. Departments, therefore, must take student demands into account when deciding which courses to offer...
...wish to discourage faculty from teaching courses related to their research interests. Often times they are the best courses at Harvard. We still believe that departments’ primary consideration in hiring professors should be the quality of a scholar’s work. But departments must bear in mind that the primary mission of the College is to educate its undergraduates. Where gaps need to be filled, the College and individual departments must react accordingly...
...wrote that the student body “has had its fill of radicalism. Sobered by the heavy financial burdens most of their families have to bear for their schooling, they want an education solid enough to warrant the investment. Chastened by the fall-out of the sexual revolution and the breakdown of the family, they are wary of human experiments that destabilize society even further...
Foster has brought these and many other insights to bear on her work in the classroom and within the larger context of the University. The themes of movement and storytelling find themselves everywhere in her work. She closely relates teaching and art, saying “What makes these disciplines so challenging is that you can’t stay inside. You have to invite someone in, and they have to participate...
...there’s an installment of a new weblog,” says Assistant Professor of Visual and Environment Studies and of English J. D. Connor ’92. “These things reward the kind of attention that cultural studies scholars can bring to bear on them.”Connor, whose VES 195: “Hollywood Film” requires that students watch movies like “The Exorcist” and “Jaws,” bemoans the lack of attention given to television at Harvard. “It?...